All Life is Problem Solving

Verificationism is the view that a statement or question is only legitimate if there is some way to determine whether the statement is true or false, or what the answer to the question is.

Verification principle: That meaningful statements should be analytic, verifiable or falsifiable.

— Wikipedia on Verificationism

檢證原則

一句句子要有意思，你要講得出，至少在原則上，它在什麼情況下為之真、在什麼情況下為之假。換句話說，你要講得出，至少在原則上，如何證明或者否證它。否則，那句句子就沒有意義。

檢證原則 –> 印證原則

但是，有時即使一些句子明明是有意義的，在原則上，也沒有可能百分百證明，它們是正確的。

例如，科學理論句子的特性是，只要有一個妥當執行的實驗，和它的預測不相符，就足以否證它。相反，無論有多少次實驗的結果，和該個科學理論的預測吻合，你也不能保證，下一次的實驗結果，仍然會是那樣。換句話說，無論你做多少次實驗，也不能百分百證明，那句科學理論句子是正確的。

所以，我們放寬了「檢證原則」的要求，把它改編為「印證原則」。一句句子即使不能通過「檢證原則」，如何能夠通過「印證原則」的話，我們仍然可以視之為有意義。

印證原則

一句句子即使不能通過「檢證原則」，如果你可以講得出，至少在原則上，如何提高它的可信度，我們仍然可以視之為有意義。

— Me@2011.09.15

Think Different

Posted on September 7, 2011 by rpflee

Here’s to the Crazy Ones.

The misfits.
The rebels.
The troublemakers.
The round pegs in the square holes.

The ones who see things differently.
They’re not fond of rules.
And they have no respect for the status quo.
You can quote them, disagree with them,
disbelieve them, glorify or vilify them.

About the only thing that you can’t do, is ignore them.
Because they change things.
They invent. They imagine. They heal.
They explore. They create. They inspire.
They push the human race forward.

Maybe they have to be crazy.

How else can you stare at an empty canvas and see a work of art?
Or, sit in silence and hear a song that hasn’t been written?
Or, gaze at a red planet and see a laboratory on wheels?

We make tools for these kinds of people.

While some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius.
Because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world,
are the ones who do.

— Think Different

— Apple

2011.09.07 Wednesday ACHK

Now-here-I 3

Posted on August 15, 2011 by rpflee

Now = transcend time

Here = transcend self = self de-centralization

I = Be a miracle | 一切是創造

— Me@2010.11.25

— Me@2011.08.15

Make a difference

Posted on August 14, 2011 by rpflee

有所作為

The difference that makes no difference makes no difference.

—

無關痛癢的分別，毋須理會；

無關痛癢的改變，不作也罷。

— Me@2011.08.14

魔法筆記 1.2

Posted on July 4, 2011 by rpflee

這段改編自 2010 年 5 月 12 日的對話。

聽下去好像很神奇，怎可能做到「數百頁中的每一頁也記得」呢？

只要你跟著以下的步驟便行。

首先，你要準備一本筆記簿。然後，把教科書逐頁閱讀。閱讀每一頁時，你問問自己，該頁的課文，有什麼是「有機會不記得」而又「有需要記得」的呢？

例如，看看這一頁。第一段文字內容，有沒有需要記得的地方？

（CPK：有。）

那樣，你有可能忘記嗎？

（CPK：沒有。）

那你就毋須記錄任何東西，於你的筆記簿中。

再看下一段 …

…

如此類推。

現在，你發現這一頁的內容中，需要寫於筆記簿的東西，只有這一句。換句話說，你已將一頁的內容，壓縮成一句。你可以想像，用同樣的方法，你可以將這裡 300 頁的內容，歸納成（例如）200 頁的筆記。

到第二次溫習時，你就不需要再由頭閱讀這本 300 頁的教科書，而是改為背誦你那 200 頁的筆記。但是，因為你第二次溫習時，會事隔（例如）一個多月，不少內容會已經純熟了很多。「新知識」變成了「舊東西」，你再不可能不記得了。所以，那 200 頁的背誦內容中，凡是「一定會記得」的東西，你可以從筆記簿中刪除。透過這個方法，你可以把你的筆記再壓縮歸納成（例如）100 頁。

到第三次溫習時，你再把筆記再壓縮歸納成（例如）50 頁，如此類推。

如果你不斷重複歸納壓縮的話，到你真正公開試之前的一日時，你會只餘下（例如）20 頁的筆記。最後，你要保證自己對那 20 頁，有「全像記憶」：分毫不差，過目不忘。

你先試試用我這個溫習方法。如果你不用的話，通常會有一個典型劇情會發生：

…

— Me@2011.07.04

Copy Me, 2

Posted on June 23, 2011 by rpflee

If I am an honest person, there is at least one honest person in this world.

— Me@2010.11.23

超時空接觸

Posted on June 15, 2011 by rpflee

The Machine 3

David Drumlin: I know you must think this is all very unfair. Maybe that’s an understatement. What you don’t know is I agree. I wish the world was a place where fair was the bottom line, where the kind of idealism you showed at the hearing was rewarded, not taken advantage of. Unfortunately, we don’t live in that world.

Ellie Arroway: Funny, I’ve always believed that the world is what we make of it.

– Contact (1997 film)

2010.01.11 Monday ACHK

Delta encoding

Posted on June 7, 2011 by rpflee

diff 4

The version history is paired with the use of delta encoding technology. To conserve bandwidth and time, if a file in a user’s Dropbox folder is changed, Dropbox only uploads the pieces of the file that are changed when syncing.

— Wikipedia on Dropbox (service)

2011.06.07 Tuesday ACHK

開山祖師牛 6

Posted on April 25, 2011 by rpflee

We must be the change we seek in the world.

— Mahatma Gandhi

You get not what you ask, you get what you create.

— based on Conversations with God

The best way to complain is to make things.

— James Murphy

— Me@2010.11.19

2011.04.25 Monday ACHK

Broken symmetry 2

Posted on April 24, 2011 by rpflee

diff 3b

Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Anything that does not change you cannot see, because it falls into the background.

你不會到留意「正常」的事物，因為，它們會化成「背景」。

— Me@2011.04.22

想知一件事物的價值，你先要嘗試失去它。

你不會到留意「正常」的事物，因為腦部毋須處理「正常」的事物，所以會自動忽略它們，以節省資源去解決「問題」。（「問題」就是不如意的事物。）

— Me@2011.04.24

Broken symmetry

Posted on April 24, 2011 by rpflee

A physical object is observable if and only if it breaks a symmetry.

— Professor Renbao Liu

2011.04.23 Saturday ACHK

Reality dream

Posted on March 19, 2011 by rpflee

潛行凶間 4

Life is like a dream. You CREATE your own reality.

— Me@2011.03.18

If you do not create your own reality, you will live in other people’s reality.

— Me@2011.03.19

問題再生論 2

Posted on March 18, 2011 by rpflee

問題再生論 = 人生雕刻家

— Me@2010.11.09

~ Be a miracle

~ 反白論

— Me@2011.03.18

That

Posted on March 11, 2011 by rpflee

One way to build up your faith is to spend time with somebody who truly believes in you.

And the important thing is that [you can] be that person to others; also, be that person to yourself.

— based on Stephen Covey

— Me@2002

— Me@2009.07.25

旅程 3

Posted on March 9, 2011 by rpflee

The smallest possible step, 10

The treasure you can find at the top of a mountain is the one you take to there.

–

2009.07.02 2011.03.09 Wednesday ACHK

The Art of Life

Posted on February 22, 2011 by rpflee

Make visible what, without you, might perhaps have never been seen.

– Robert Bresson

— Me@2010.05.20

2011.02.22 Tuesday ACHK

diff 2b

Posted on February 21, 2011 by rpflee

x = the best possible future
y = now

z = what you need to do

x – y = z

— Me@2011.02.20

diff 2a